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If ATI were a
Winston Cup NASCAR, we'd say that the company is efficiently
firing on all eight cylinders. The Mobility RADEON
9000 rules the mobile market, the well publicized RADEON 9700 Pro
delivers the best performance to gaming enthusiasts, and the
RADEON 9000 Pro is a solid mainstream card. Further,
ATI's latest round of hardware has been complimented by
relatively stable drivers - a first, as far as the gaming
community is concerned. After the past few months of
heightened success, what more could we ask for from the
Canadian firm? Well, consider this... Even while
NVIDIA dominated the world of 3D performance, ATI's
All-In-Wonder multimedia line remained virtually
unchallenged. Now that ATI has the new R300 graphics
core to work with, it would
certainly be nice to see an R300-based All-In-Wonder card.
And that's
exactly what we're previewing here today, ATI's upcoming
All-In-Wonder RADEON 9700 Pro, the successor to the
All-In-Wonder RADEON 8500. The board itself won't be
ready for the retail market until later this year, but
considering ATI's quick follow-through after the RADEON 9700
Pro was launched, we'd have no reason to doubt that the
beefy multimedia version will also arrive on time for the
Christmas buying season. Of course we're basing this on more than
just "gut instinct." For one, ATI ran the
presentations during the RADEON 9700 Pro launch on an early
All-In-Wonder card, which is why the press was able to watch
a real-time demonstration of 128-bit floating point
precision. Then, ATI previewed the card itself at a
separate press event earlier in September. At that
time, the hardware was said to be final, with some minor
work left on the accompanying software suite. So,
while the complete package is being finished, we'll give you
a peek at the card ATI will make available later this Fall.
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Features
of the All In Wonder RADEON 9700 Pro |
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ATi's Fully DX9
Compliant Rendering Engine |
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GRAPHICS
TECHNOLOGY
MEMORY
CONFIGURATION
3D
GRAPHICS FEATURES
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Eight
parallel rendering pipelines
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Four
parallel geometry engines
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High
precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
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256-bit DDR memory interface
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AGP 8X
support
-SMARTSHADER? 2.0
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Full
support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable pixel
and vertex shaders in hardware
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2.0
Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering
pass
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2.0
Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 1024
instructions with flow control
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New
128-bit per pixel floating point color formats
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Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
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Shadow
volume rendering acceleration
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Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL via
extensions
-SMOOTHVISION?
2.0
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State-of-the-art full-scene anti-aliasing
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Supports 2x, 4x, and 6x modes with programmable sample
patterns
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Advanced anisotropic filtering
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Supports up to 16 bilinear samples (in performance
mode) or trilinear samples (in quality mode) per pixel
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2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
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Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
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2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
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Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and
trilinear (quality) options
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Bandwidth-saving algorithm enables this feature with
minimal performance cost
-HYPERZ? III
-TRUFORM? 2.0
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2nd
generation N-patch higher order surface support
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Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per
polygon for dynamic LOD
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DirectX 9.0 displacement mapping
ALSO
INCLUDED
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VIDEO
FEATURES
-VIDEOSHADER?
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Seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders
with video data
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High
quality, hardware accelerated de-blocking of internet
streaming video
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Noise
removal filter for captured video
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Integrated MPEG-2 decode
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Hardware accelerated iDCT, motion compensation, and
color space conversion
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Top
quality DVD and all-format DTV/HDTV decode with low
CPU overhead
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Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
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Upscaling and downscaling with 4-tap horizontal and
vertical filtering
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Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
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Unique
per-pixel adaptive de-interlacing feature combines the
best elements of the ?bob? and ?add-field? (weave)
techniques
FULLSTREAM? video de-blocking technology
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Noise
removal filtering for captured video
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MPEG-2
decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color
space conversion
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All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
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YPrPb
component output
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Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
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Dual
integrated display controllers
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Dual
integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz DACs
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Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI and HDCP
compliant)
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Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
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Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon? 3Dnow!
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PC
2002 compliant
DISPLAY
FEATURES
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Dual
integrated display controllers
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Drive
two displays simultaneously with independent
resolutions and refresh rates
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HYDRAVISION? software provides complete control over
multi-display configurations with a user-friendly
interface
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Dual
integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating
at up to 400MHz
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Integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter supports
resolutions up to QXGA (2048x1536) and complies with
DVI and HDCP specifications
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Integrated
TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution
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YPrPb
output for direct drive of HDTV monitors
DISPLAY
SUPPORT
GENERAL
FEATURES
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Comprehensive 4x and 8x AGP support
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Fully
compliant with PC 2002 requirements
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Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon? 3Dnow!
processor instructions
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Supports THEATER? 200 companion chip for
NTSC/PAL/SECAM video capture
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Highly
optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new
Windows® XP GDI extensions
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